Queering the Color Line
Subtitle: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture (Series Q)
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: December 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780822324072
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; American history: from c 1900 -; Cultural studies; Ethnic studies; Gay & Lesbian studies; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Homosexuality in literature; Homosexuality; Race And Ethnic Relations; Social Science; Gender Studies; Sociology; USA; Lesbian Studies; Gay Studies; American Studies; Gay & Lesbian Studies/Queer Th; Race and Ethnicity; United States; Discrimination & Racism; Gender identity; History; Race awareness
First sentence: "I regard sex as the central problem of life," wrote Havelock Ellis in the general preface to the first volume of Studies in the Psychology of Sex, one of the most important texts of the late-nineteenth-century medical and scientific discourse on homosexuality in the United States and Europe.